VW's Preferred Shares Hover Near Yearly Lows as Restructuring Plans Widen Beyond Germany

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    "title": "VW's Preferred Shares Hover Near Yearly Lows as Restructuring Plans Widen Beyond Germany - ad-hoc-news.de",
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    "excerpt": "The pressure building inside Volkswagen's boardroom has spilled into a broader strategic reckoning. Fresh reports suggest management is weighing the elimination of roughly 100,000 positions - about one-sixth of the global workforce - alongside a dramatic slimming of the model lineup to around 75 nameplates, roughly half the current offering. The aim: take a sledgehammer to production capacity across the group. The proposals land barely 24 hours after the supervisory board pumped the brakes on a separate, equally aggressive cost-cutting push. Worker representatives on the oversight body had balked at the severity of planned plant closures and job reductions in Germany. Yet the widening scope of the new deliberations signals that the leadership's room for manoeuvre is shrinking by the week. The most pointed pressure is coming from the top. Porsche SE, the holding company that controls 31.9 percent of Volkswagen's voting rights and 12.5 percent of Porsche AG, swung to a net loss of €2.2 billion in the first half of 2026, a stark reversal from the €949 million adjusted profit it booked in the same period a year earlier. The damage was driven by writedowns of €3 billion on its VW stake and a further €0.2 billion impairment on the Porsche AG holding. Hans Dieter Pötsch, the Porsche SE chief executive, has responded by demanding \"swift action\" from the VW executive board to safeguard...",
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